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On June 17th, Harley Geiger, CDT’s Senior Counsel and Advocacy Director, will testify in a hearing before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on “Drones: The Next Generation of Commerce?”
His testimony can be found here.

School districts across the country have embraced education technology (“EdTech”) as a means for enhancing school operations and classroom instruction. While the practice of collecting student data is not new – K-12 schools and institutions of higher education have been gathering and reporting test scores, grades, retention records, and the like for years – the means by which student…

Now everyone has exhaustive and detailed records of our lives in our emails, chats, social media posts, and more. In the not too distant future, we may be able to upload our digital lives to black boxes that write our biographies. If you care about your digital life after death – and the sanity of those that will be tasked with managing it – you should take control of your digital destiny now. Here are our tips and resources for managing your digital estate.

The Center for Democracy & Technology enthusiastically supports the Student Digital Privacy and Parental Rights Act, introduced by Congressman Luke Messer (R-Ind.) and Congressman Jared Polis (D-Colo.) on April 29th.
EdTech is an integral component of classroom instruction across the country; the Obama Administration and numerous state school systems have prioritized connecting classrooms to the internet in recent years….

This paper is the third in a series of three, each of which explores health big data in a different context. The first — on health big data in the government context — is available here, and the second — on health big data in the clinical context — is available here.
Consumers are increasingly using mobile phone…

This paper is the second in a series of three, each of which explores health big data in a different context. The first — on health big data in the government context — is available here, and the third — on health big data in the commercial context — is available here.
The health care industry, like other sectors, faces exciting new…

This paper is the first in a series of three, each of which explores health big data in a different context. The second — on health big data in the clinical context — is available here, and the third — on health big data in the commercial context — is available here.
Data-driven and information-based systems have quickly become…

On April 20, 2015, CDT submitted comments to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) request for public comment on “Privacy, Transparency, and Accountability Regarding Commercial and Private Use of Unmanned Aircraft Systems.”

Sophisticated statistical analysis is a pillar of decision making in the 21st Century, including employment, lending, and policing. Automated systems also mediate our access to information and community through search results and social media. These technologies are pivotal to day-to-day life, but the processes that govern them are not transparent.